Cyclone Hudhud

The MeT department has announced that cyclonic storm Hudhud is expected to become severe in the next 12 hours, and will be accompanied by very heavy rainfall and gusty winds as it inches closer to the coast. 

On Thursday evening Oct 09,2014, Hudhud was 675-km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam and 685-km southeast of Gopalpur in Orissa, moving closer to the coast. 

The system would continue to move west-northwestwards and intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm during the next 12 hours

The cyclone will cross the north Andhra Pradesh coast around Visakhapatnam by the forenoon of October 12,2014 the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. 

On Wednesday, the cyclone had been oriented at about 1,100-km southeast of Gopalpur and 1,150-km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam at around 11.30am. 

The weather office has issued a heavy rainfall warning for the north Andhra Pradesh coast and south Orissa. 

Under the influence of the system, rainfall at most places, with heavy (6.5-12.4-cm) to very heavy falls (12.5- 24.4- cm) at a few places, and isolated extremely heavy rainfall (more than 24.5-cm), will occur over south Orissa from the evening of October 11,2014 onwards.

Rainfall will occur at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places (likely) over Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts of north coastal Andhra, the IMD said. 

According to the weather office, squally winds reaching speeds of 50-60 kmph gusting to 70 kmph will commence along and off the north Andhra Pradesh and south Orissa coasts from the morning of October 11,2014

Wind speed will increase to 130-140 -kmph gusting to 150-kmph from October 12. 

Sea conditions will be rough to very rough from the morning of October 11. They will gradually become phenomenal from morning of October 12,2014
 

Note
The latest storm Hudhud is named by Oman after Arabic word, Hoopoe, a blue-crested bird found in Afro Eurasia known for its beautiful crest of feathers

Hudhud (Arabic for hoopoe), the unlikely avian inspiration behind a brewing cyclone’s name, is a little bright orange, insectivorous bird found across Asia, Africa and much of Europe.

The hoopoe finds special references in the Koran and is described as the “leader of birds” in the Persian text The Conference of the Birds

Eight countries take turns to name cyclones over the Indian Ocean, and Hudhud was Oman’s contribution.

Naming of cyclones in North Indian Ocean by India and other SAARC countries and Oman and Thailand began 10 years ago for easy reference, documentation and research

International committee of World Meteorological Organisation and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific play a key role in cyclone naming

Naming of cyclones is done by turns in the following sequence after Nilofer by Pakistan: Priya (Sri Lanka), Komen (Thailand), Chapala (Bangladesh), Megh (India), Roanu (Maldives), Kyant (Myanmer), Nada (Oman) and Asiri (Sri Lanka)